A New Jersey company, Par Pharmaceutical, for over eight years, has made millions misrepresenting one of their drugs—eleven million to be exact. Par irresponsibly sold Megace ES as a weight-gain drug for patients in nursing homes and various long-term care facilities. Though approved by the FDA for treating weight loss due to AIDS, somewhere along the line Par decided they had another profit center in their hands. And away they went without proper additional research and clinical trials as had been requested by the FDA if they wanted to market the drug for other uses. But why would they want to go to all that extra work when they had a good thing going without spending time and money on such requirements. After all, they were handsomely rewarding their top-producing sales representatives with things like Rolex watches and fancy vacations. These reps, being very good at what they did, approached doctors and nursing homes that cared for geriatric patients that didn’t have AIDs. Sadly, the side effects included a risk of deep-vein thrombosis, a toxic reaction in the elderly suffering with impaired renal function, and death.

Luckily for the public, Par Pharmaceutical lost their court battles involving what is called “off-label” marketing of their weight-gain drug. They pled guilty in federal court. And in March of this year, they settled the case against them and agreed to pay $45 million in penalties.

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But times are changing.

Today, more and more sub-par “nourishment” of our soil is the result of chemical companies like Monsanto leading the way to genetic modification and engineering of organisms by chemically “infecting” soil and plants minus crop rotation. Loaded with lobbying money, Monsanto, Dow and other chemical companies are moving through our country and Congress like a wrecking ball bent on bringing down a fifty story building as they destroy the “natural” order of farming.

So what is the outcome?

We are seeing it happen right before our eyes. Brain disorders are up and climbing at an unimaginable rate. Autism is affecting 1 in 50 children. Last year when I wrote about it, the ratio was 1 in 88. Two years ago it was 1 in 110. In 1972, it was 1 in 10,000, the year I was pregnant with my first child and prayed that all would go well and this problem would be non-existent by the time my children had my grandchildren. But I was oh, so wrong. In the last 40 years, my mother has died of Alzheimer’s disease (as of the 2013 Alzheimer’s Report there are now over 5 million cases in America and climbing and is a disease that everybody who gets it dies). Her two aunts died from Alzheimer’s and my grandmother from stroke and Parkinson’s. All brain related. I urge you to take an inventory of your family. And be sure to count all autoimmune diseases. They fall into this category, too.

You see, the brain is sponge-like in its composition. And sponges are known for their ability to collect and gather up all sorts of debris. Whether it is healthy nutrients or toxic foreign matter ready to do damage and gum up the works, both gravitate to the brain like nails to a magnet.

Now put these pieces together.

Consider what we are in for by not following healthy farm practices. The consequences are devastating. To “enhance” crops, Monsanto is legislating chemicals to make insects die when they feed on corn and strawberries. So if insects die from eating corn and strawberries and this is the same corn and strawberries we feed to our children are we not likely to see the results of such a practice in brain disorder statistics?  In spite of this prognosis, we must maintain hope and faith that we can change this dire situation by standing up to these chemical monsters. However big the challenge, it is ours to take on. Lives are at stake—our babies, our elders and everyone in between.

Remember, it is all about chemicals and soil depletion…not the enrichment Monsanto would like us to believe.

Their chemicals are not new. Round-up is one of them. Since the ‘90s we have been eating chemicals like Round-up right along with our corn and strawberries. Our children have been taking them in with every strawberry and ear of corn they eat. So come full circle with me. In the last 20 years, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, every autoimmune disease, ADD, ADHD and on and on; they have risen. The list is endless. And what is different? Monsanto! Dow Chemical! And others like them manipulating our food supply. Our children are among the largest group showing a rapid and dramatic effect of brain disorders. Their little growing brains are especially vulnerable and statistics are bringing it home to us.

If we owe our mothers anything this Mother’s Day, we owe her and our children and grandchildren to get on this bandwagon and fight with every ounce of strength in our body against Monsanto’s raid on our food supply before it is too late and our plants, their seeds and the earth are so contaminated we can’t reverse it.

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Fortunately next week, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) are going to be introducing new Federal legislation that will require labeling of all genetically engineered [GE] foods in the U.S. This is the first time in a decade a labeling bill is coming to the floor of the Senate. According to the Institute for Responsible Technology, sixty-four countries have mandatory labeling policies for GE foods. The United States, shamefully, is not one of them.

Of developed countries, the European Union along with the U.K., Japan, Brazil, Australia, South Korea, South Africa and many, many others have already banned genetically modified food organisms. For America, so far this year twenty-eight states have introduced 53 GE labeling bills. Hawaii, Washington, Indiana, Missouri and Vermont are among them. Unfortunately, Proposition 37 in California requiring labeling went down in a narrow defeat last November, but they continue to fight for labeling. The point is made in my warning about California strawberries. They are genetically modified and if you don’t want to eat pesticide affected berries, check the label. Mexico may be a safer bet than California. Please note, I said “may.”

Much is riding on this matter. So long as our congress members are getting paid by us $174,000 a year, you and I have every right to demand they do right by us.

SO LET’S TAKE ACTION NOW!

Tell your Senators and Representative to get on board with and Co-Sponsor the GE food labeling bill! It is a matter of life or death.

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Then on March 26^th things changed. Unbeknownst to us all, our government passed HR933, the Farmers Assurance Provision with its main purpose as a spending bill. But buried deep inside that bill was Section 735, the Monsanto Protection Act. International Business Times reported it was “written in collusion with Monsanto” and with the help of Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri. This provision allows Monsanto to “keep selling seeds, which can then go on to be planted, even if…found to be harmful to consumers” otherwise known as GMOs. The bill also provides “[barring of] federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of controversial genetically modified [GMO] or genetically engineered [GE] seeds, no matter what health issues may arise concerning GMOs in the future” giving rise of suspicion that Monsanto is pretty sure this whole GMO thing is bad for you. So to protect themselves, this law they wrote effectively gives them carte blanche over the nations food supply with no consequence when “adverse health effects” from eating genetically modified foods appear. The provision maintains courts cannot protect the public because under this law, they have no authority or ability to stop Monsanto and the “spread of the seeds and the crops they bear.”

Any reasonable person, when informed even a little, knows from logic that if a substance injected into soil or a plant designed to kill pests begs the question, “How long is it going to take before we become that pest and start experiencing increased disease and death in ways we cannot explain or imagine today?”

Astoundingly, most members of Congress “were…unaware that the Monsanto Protection Act,” Section 735, even existed within the bill they voted on. HR933 had been perceived and sold as a spending bill to prevent government from shutting down so we as a country could continue to pay our bills. Then came along the unconscionable “backroom deal” dire in consequence and conveniently piggy-backed into legislation.

We are literally being sent down an exceedingly polluted river on a raft of genetically modified organisms by a chemical company making huge profits and by government representatives not caring enough to know what is in a bill they have just voted on. According to Salon.com, the Food Democracy Now and the Center for Food Safety are looking at Senator Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, Chair Senate Appropriations Committee, for letting this slip by. The irresponsibility of Sen. Mikulski and others is reprehensible. It should make us wonder if these people care nothing about their own children and grandchildren let alone ours.

To every Senator, Representative and the President, I ask, “Do you not have a method to read every bill you vote on from beginning to end before giving your vote? A way to find those hidden provisions that special interests want to sneak in?” Riders loaded into bills at the eleventh hour that have nothing to do with the core of any provision are not new. Mr. President, Senators and Representatives, you get paid to create, read, know, understand and be smart about legislation. This wasn’t smart.

Chemical giant Monsanto and lesser known chemical companies have been able to hoodwink you as well as us. They have manipulated, with the help of Senators Blunt and Mikulski in particular, Congress and the President into passing and signing something that will save crops from bugs and pests and likely will contribute to or actually kill people in the process. We are faced not only with a compromised food supply, but a deplorable manipulation of our democratic process.

If we don’t as a people, take action and speak out now for repeal, children born today will inherit a far more devastating problem than any other when they as grown-ups deal with a tainted food supply causing unforeseen illness. There is no greater tragedy to bestow upon the human race than intentional manufactured chemical destruction of healthy farm practices and healthy food. Fortunately, there is a growing demand by the public for nutritious, organically grown, healthy foodstuffs free of chemicals. Crop rotation where are you when we need you! Time is now to be on this together and writing every politician we can think of from our own to the two specifically mentioned in this article straight through to the President.

I commit to you, to my children and to my grandchildren; this will not be a topic I will leave alone. There is too much at stake.

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Normal vision

Diabetic retinopathy occurs from complications of diabetes. Eighty percent of all patients who have diabetes extending over ten years are affected. That’s the bad news. The good news is 90 percent of cases that are new can be minimized or reduced when properly treated and monitored. Warning signs are few if any. But, if you are diabetic, there are lifestyle changes that can take a lot of the worry out of this complication.

A highly problematic autoimmune disease, diabetes is demonstrated by abnormally high levels of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. Within that definition there are two forms—type 1, previously known as juvenile diabetes; and type 2. For those with type 1 diabetes, issues regarding the eyes begin to show on average about seven years after diabetes begins. However, the threat of vision impairment from diabetic retinopathy is not likely to develop until sometime farther down the road.

Diabetic retinopathy simulation

Retinopathy in type 2 diabetics, however, appears upon diagnosis of their diabetes or soon thereafter. The reason for such quick appearance of the condition is tied to time. Type 2 diabetes onset is gradual and possible changes can be going on long before the type 2 diabetes is even diagnosed or discovered.

Progressive deterioration occurs in three stages for diabetic retinopathy. All involve an initial leaking or accumulation of fluid within the retina.

1. Micro Aneurysms occur in early stages of the disease and blood vessels in the retina develop weak spots.
2. Macular Edema involves swelling around the macula is caused by fluid leakage.
3. Proliferative Retinopathy is the most critical and dangerous. Growth of new blood vessels occurs and leads to acute loss of vision when they rupture or bleed.

How or why diabetic retinopathy comes about remains a mystery. One possibility may be a signaling protein [VEGF] that gets secreted into the eye. It is a response to internal damage that comes from the disease itself.  Additionally, other studies point to higher levels of cholesterol and triglycerides together with high blood pressure which together are believed to be contributing factors. And though these eye conditions can happen in people without diabetes, individuals with diabetes are at much higher risk for these complications.

So what can be done to protect against diabetic retinopathy? Eye health is critical and its importance cannot be stressed enough. These easy to incorporate principles can help. A diet high in alkaline plant-based foods so acid retention by the body can be reduced, a keeping of cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure in check when eating lots of these plant-based unrefined foods, an elimination or reduction of all forms of meat products, elimination of processed foods and a return to cooking fresh foods, increased hydration preferably with good high quality readily absorbable water like honest mountain spring water or alkaline-ionized water, high quality beneficial supplements some in the form of green drinks or capsules, a routine of regular exercise and good quality sleep because it facilitates healthier eyes and a healthier you.

With regard to treatment, the National Eye Institute of the National Institute for Health recommends laser surgery. It has become an effective technique that causes abnormal blood vessels to shrink. The NEI goes on to encourage comprehensive dilated eye exams together with control of blood sugar levels, blood pressure and blood cholesterol. When a problem has the potential of occurring, if spotted early a positive outcome is more likely to occur.

Today, on the cutting edge of wellness is the accomplishment of world-class atomic medical physicist, Dr. Gary Samuelson. Samuelson has created a redox signaling supplement that is capable of adding natural and the ever so necessary ‘communication’ molecules into the body. From the moment we are born, redox signaling molecules are required for giving life, sustaining life and repairing and replacing bad cells. Our body makes these specialized molecules naturally every second of every day by the thousands. But as we age, production after about 12 years old starts dropping off. Reduction in production affects our bodies’ ability to do the job of healing. Researched for over 20 years at laboratories like Harvard, UCLA and others, Samuelson’s contribution is the most significant. His work has made it possible for us to add more of these critically important molecules to our own production in a safe and 100 percent non-toxic way.

When talking about diabetes and eye health, preventive measures cannot be under estimated. It is about being well and living a long life in a healthful and meaningful way.

Now, “[f]or the first time in the history of the world, this year [2013] more people will die from the effects of too much food than from starvation,” says Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an interview with James Bennet in the November 2012 issue of The Atlantic magazine.²

In New York City a fight is on over the maximum cup size for serving soda, one of the most sugar laden drinks on the planet. Mayor Bloomberg is waking people up to over consumption by limiting cup size to 16 ounces. The message is clear. All this sugar is killing us and it is time for restraint.

Prior to soda, Bloomberg responded to the unhealthy food being served in fast food restaurants by requiring calorie labeling on their menus. Clearly, he’s a man not easily intimidated or afraid to take the beverage and food “manufacturers” to task and ring-in the exploitive nature of their marketing.

The correlation between obesity and sugar consumption is up over 100 percent. Beverage companies dispute this statistic, but the one thing that cannot be disputed is the serious and frightening increase of obesity for all ages. Alas, the beverage industry is seeing obstacles to their free-wheeling marketing and product development looming on the road ahead.

To the detriment of consumers, companies like Coca Cola have begun to think strategically. Their plan, to get ahead of the sharp turn and move the masses over to Coke Zero or Diet Coke marketing them as lo-cal and free of sugar. A joke they are playing on the public and unfortunately getting away with. Their intent, whether they admit it openly or not, is to get people of all ages hooked on their heavy-in-sugar, chemically laden colored drinks worldwide.

But it isn’t just soda and fast food that is worthy of our concern. It’s also every processed food in your local grocery store. Fancy child-engaging packaging together with psychologically provocative advertising is where it starts. All designed to pull your son or daughter in and beg you to buy it. While little Aaron or Sarah are pulling on you to buy them Yoplait’s Go-Gurt, keep in mind that the head of General Mills, Stephen Sanger, has much to lose if parents reject his products—five hundred million annually to be exact. It is his company that changed unsweetened healthy yogurt into a virtual breakfast “dessert.” There is twice as much sugar in a serving of Yoplait yogurt as General Mills’ marshmallow cereal, Lucky Charms.³

Our rapidly growing poor nutrition standard is about to take us over. It is not only obesity, but all of the other serious health conditions that arise from the drinking of acid ridden soda and the eating of processed foods. Sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame or anything where sweet becomes the objective for taste; we need to stand-up and fight against. Our food is killing us and our children are going first.

¹Warburg, Otto H., The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer – Part 1. Revised Lecture Meeting of Nobelists, Landau, Germany, June 30, 1966.

²James Bennet, “The Bloomberg Way,” The Atlantic Magazine, (November 2012), 66-70.

³Michael Moss, “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” New York Times, February 20, 2013.

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As part of this plan there is one single product that I believe, and the science and research supports this, puts more than 500 times the enzyme catalase into my body. This enzyme is the single most important enzyme for the brain. The brain has to make it and has to have it to be healthy. This particular enzyme is found in nearly all living organisms exposed to oxygen and is one of the most efficient found in cells. In this case, its essence is food for the brain allowing for new and repaired brain cells to be produced. And yes, the supplement that can add catalase to your system is one I’ve talked about often. It is Asea.

As you read these latest facts on Alzheimer’s Disease, remember how you can provide more catalase to your brain and help prevent this devastating disease from taking you.

Here are some of the newest facts just out for 2013:¹

• Alzheimer’s Disease is the 6^th leading cause of death in the U.S. after only Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke and HIV.

• Between years 2000 and 2010 all deaths from these diseases decreased except for one. That disease is Alzheimer’s which increased by 68%. This number is destined to grow as there are no survivors of Alzheimer’s Disease.

• 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.

• In 2013, Alzheimer’s is expected to cost our country $203 billion. By 2050, the cost is anticipated to go to $1.2 trillion.

• Every 68 seconds an American develops Alzheimer’s disease. By 2050 that time shortens to every 33 seconds.

• It is estimated 5.2 million people of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease with 5 million 65 and older and 200,000 younger than 65.

¹Alzheimer’s Association, 2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, Volume 9, Issue 2. http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_facts_and_figures.asp

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